Chapter 9 Victory
"I've seen the general." In a military tent behind the shogunate, Yang Wenjun greeted Xiang Yan who came in, and the concubine prince Fu Chu was also standing up with him. If the prince, all the legitimate sons died, then the concubine prince could obtain the support of the army and that concubine prince could ascend the throne. Unfortunately, the prince Xiong Jing would not kill him, and now he ascends the throne as king. The two of them had a vain plot.
Xiang Yan raised his head and did not look at Fu Chu who was bent down, but looked at Yang Wenjun in disguise: "Is there a letter from Qin?"
"There has not been a letter from Qin, but..." Fu Chu was still bowing to him in a humble manner, and Yang Wenjun had to pull him up.
"How about that?" Xiang Yan stared at him. If Mr. Chen had not written a letter to recommend him, saying that Prince Fu Chu was the hope of the county officials, and why did Yang Wenjun know all the things in Qin State well and that it would be beneficial to the war, he would have driven the two out long ago. No matter how bad the Order Huang Xie was, he would not have caused the disaster of the Three Kingdoms today.
"Can you know that Meng Wu's guardian is Sikongma, the disciple of Lu Buwei?" Yang Wenjun sat down and spoke upright.
"So what?" Xiang Yan also sat down. Although he didn't like Yang Wenjun and Fu Chu, they could indeed provide him with information from Qin.
"This is what I said yesterday. If the general goes north, the Qin army will fight with our army. Even if the Qin army still has tens of thousands of troops not entering the territory of Chu." Yang Wenjun laughed. "Changping, the right prime minister of Qin, is the son of the former king of our Chu, and has always been with me. Lu Buwei wanted to attack Chu to force Changping to ask the King of Qin to withdraw his troops, so he naturally wanted to defeat our army. In this way, Changping asked to withdraw his troops, and the King of Qin did not replace him with Changping as the prime minister."
"Ten thousand troops? Changpingjun... I have heard of it." Finally, Xiang Yan nodded frequently when he heard something substantial.
"Lao Ai was born in chaos. The King of Qin wanted to send Lu Buwei to resign and replaced him with Changping Jun. Lu Buwei was unwilling to accept this battle, so he had this battle." Yang Wenjun briefly described the cause of this battle, but many things were hidden. "The King of Qin wanted to take it was Zhao, but the King of Qin was suspicious and was afraid that Changping Jun's family and his mother country would be in a position to send Lu Buwei to attack Chu. If the general wins this battle, the King of Qin will retreat."
"What if it is defeated?" Xiang Yan asked.
"If you lose, you will retreat." Yang Wenjun said. "Chu State will survive, Wei Qi is weak, Chu State will not exist, Wei Qi is victorious. The King of Qin will have a day of thought that it will never make Chu State disappear and Wei Qi profit. When Chu State is in danger, Qin will help me retreat Wei Qi's troops."
"If this is true, will Chu State or Chu State?" Xiang Yan could imagine the situation that Yang Wenjun said, but as the general of Chu State, he would never allow this situation to happen.
"Qin dominates the world, and the general thinks what can Chu do?" Yang Wenjun asked back, with helplessness on his face.
"The king doesn't want to leave the army." Xiang Yan suddenly talked about Xiong Jing. He had just talked with Xiong Jing for a long time.
"He..." Fu Chu wanted to ask something and got stuck again.
"Oh. What does the king say?" Yang Wenjun knew what Fu Chu wanted to ask.
"I ask the king to retreat to Xi County. If I am defeated, the State of Chu may be able to stand for the throne. The king said: If this battle is defeated, there will be no more State of Chu from now on." Xiang Yan blinked his eyes and showed his emotion. "Our army will set off the camp north tonight. I will send someone to escort you to return to Xi County. If this battle is defeated, you may be able to clean up the chaos and stand for the throne. Goodbye."
Xiang Yan bowed and withdrew from the military tent. It was too late. He had to beat the drum and gather the generals to announce the fact that he would go north to the camp. Everything could happen on the battlefield. The order of the march to go north to the camp determined the order of the formation during the decisive battle.
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"Oh! King Jing has arrived in Xiang Yan's army?" The chief lord Meng Wu was very interested in the information of Bai Lin Duwei.
"That's right." Bai Lin's face was full of smiles, and he knew that Meng Wu would be interested in this. "When our army withdrew from Jiangyi, a Knight of Jing surrendered to me. He said that the new King of Jing and the 50,000 Jiangdong troops had arrived in Xiangyan's army."
"Where is this person?" Bi Mengwu was more interested in the guard Sikongma.
"Just outside the tent, if the Sikong Guardian wants to see him, the last general will immediately send him in." Bai Lin replied immediately.
"No need." Sikong Ma was just interested in this news, not really wanting to see the surrendered soldier. "General Meng thought, when will Xiang Yan go north?"
"The army of Cai County from Jing people is rushing to Xi County to meet with troops. I don't know when Xiang Yan will go north." Meng Wu replied, waved his hand and asked Bai Lin, the commander-in-chief, to withdraw from the military station.
"Since King Jing is in Xiang Yan's army and his army has never met one place, I think our army should go south to Jiangyi quickly and fight with him." Sikong's urethra waves flowed. How to give Chu a fatal blow as soon as possible is his thoughts, and there is not much time left.
"However, our army evacuated Jiangyi," luring the Chu army to the north to fight was the previous plan, and giving up Jiangyi was part of the plan. "And the Qi army went south to Ju County, and the Wei army was ready to go, so our army did not have to rush to fight with the Jing people."
"No, no." Sikongma refuted: "It is because Qi and Wei sent troops to us that our army should fight quickly. King Jing was in Xiang Yan's army, and capturing them and letting them cede land was the best strategy. Otherwise, the Jing people were defeated by me, and Jing land was occupied by Qi and Wei, which would be very unfavorable to our Qin State."
Sikong Ma's disciple was born, and his mouth was completely inverted by black and white. Whether it was Meng Wu or other generals in the shogunate, he was stunned by what he said. Sikong Ma, who was unreasonable, continued: "If Xiang Yan does not go north tomorrow, our army will go south to fight him."
Sikong Ma's words were firm. Meng Wu and Yang Duanhe, the commander of the Right Army, looked at each other quietly and said nothing. But they knew why Sikong Ma was so anxious, especially in recent days, an envoy came to the guard camp every day from Xianyang. Meng Wu sent people to inquire about it. These people were not public officials, but private subordinates of the Xiangbang Lu Buwei.
Sikong Ma had private relatives, so naturally there were private subordinates of the Meng family who came from Xianyang. The situation in Qin State today was that the prime minister Lu Buwei and the right prime minister Changpingjun fought each other. Changpingjun was always investigating the Lao Ai Rebellion, while Lu Buwei used the attack on Chu as a counterattack. Mengwu did not belong to either side, but the soldiers were eager for war, especially after the first victory, he was really afraid that Lu Buwei would order the withdrawal of his troops as soon as he fell.
"Doctor Sikong..." Someone entered the account to look for Sikong Ma, and then whispered in Sikong Ma's ear.
"General Meng, dear generals, I will say goodbye first." Sikong Ma, who had already changed his expression, bowed to the generals, and his steps were in a hurry when he left.
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"...Pan Wuming was the commander of the left army, and under his command, there were also Fanyang, Eun County, Dun County, Juyang, Chen County, Ku County, Chengfu, and Lu Division; under his command, Guan You was the commander of the central army, and under his command, there were Xi County, Qisi, Liao, Xiyang, Xiacai, Juchao, Zhongli, Feiling, Shu County, and Jianyang; under his command, Yanglu was the commander of the right army, and under his command, there were Yiyang, Zhouhou, Liu, and ?,?jun troops; the rest were all the rear troops and returned to their commands."
The gathering generals Xiang Yan first issued an order to depart, and then reassigned the left, middle, right and rear four armies. According to the custom of the Chu army, the left army first started, followed by the central army, and finally the right army and the rear army. After he made such arrangements, he asked the generals of each division to return to the camp to prepare, and did not say whether to fight the Qin people or not.
Before the sun set, the battalions were collecting military tents and supplies. The Right Army took Yanglu as the commander rather than Huang Yong, but actually came out to Xiong Jing's request. At the same time, the army of the monarch was also arranged in the Right Army. With four thousand palace sanitation, nearly a thousand palace armors, and the number of the Right Army was close to 70,000. The military power of the Jiangdong army was equivalent to turning around from Xiang Yan and returning to Xiong Jing's hands.
"What do you think?" The war is imminent, military power is not critical. Xiong Jing wants to know how Xiang Yan will arrange this battle.
"Since the formations were formed and fought, there were many formations. However, the methods of victory were nothing more than two: one was to defeat the enemy's central army and promote its collapse; the other was to attack the enemy's wings and force it to flee. Xiang Yan's move only determined the commander of the left, center and right armies. It was unknown whether he wanted to hit the army or attack the enemy's wings." The right army and the rear army finally set up camp. In the small shogunate, Yanglu, Yiyangjun, and Lian Po gathered to discuss, but the others were not there.
"The central army has about 80,000 people, our army is 70,000, left army is 60,000, and the rear army..." Thinking of the more than 10,000 people in Xi County in the past two days, Yang Lu said: "The rear army is about 50,000. Sun Bin said: 'The method of square formation: it must be thin, square, and the formation is in the middle. The thin, and the general is in the back. The general is thick, and the general is in the back. He is thick, and the general is in the back. He is in the back to protect the generals.'. There are 80,000 people in the central army now. The general may want to attack the central army of Qin and then win."
"I'm afraid that's not the case. Pan Wuming is the commander of the left army. This man dares to fight bravely and will never be able to defend himself during the war. Except for the troops in Jiangdong, our army is all brave and powerful, thinking that it is the right army, or attacking the left wing of the Qin people. Guan You is the commander of the central army, and the man is mediocre and can defend but not attack. Xiang Yan's battle, he should use the left and right armies to attack the Qin people, and the central army should defend and not retreat." Everyone speculated about the arrangement of the chief general. Yi Yang Jun only felt that the army of Fengjun had the strongest combat power, and he would have to attack the two wings of the Qin people in the Right Army.
"No. The Right Army has always been the weakest army of our Chu army. In the battle of Jiangyi, the Right Army was defeated. The general's move was to strengthen our Right Army, not to attack the left and right of the Qin people." Yang Lu still insisted on his judgment, believing that it was to attack the enemy's central army and cause it to collapse.
"Cough cough..." Lian Po had to cough, and before he finished speaking, he was interrupted by two impatients. "The square formation must be thin, medium and thick, but what Xiang Yan set up was a square formation? The next day, it would be a square formation, and the thickness of the three armies was unknown. If the central army was thin and left and right, it should be a hook attack. If the central army was thick and left and right, it should be a mid-strike. The method of setting up a formation should not be discussed in one way due to the enemy's changes in the place and time."
"The teacher thinks how can our army win?" Xiong Jing asked the formation to actually want to know how to win. "Is the catapult useful?"
"The iron bomb that enters the mud is of no use." Lian Po had heard Xiong Jing talk about the catapult before, and he also looked at it today. "If you throw a fire bomb, formation battle may be useful."
"The army's Sima has collected fat in the army, and there will be fire bullets in the formation battle." Xiong Jing added urgently. Xiang Yan's words in the afternoon, "This battle is not as good as 55" made him feel cold. Now he only wants Lian Po, a veteran on the battlefield, to give him some hope.
Chapter completed!